Global Patent Index - EP 0984058 A3

GPI coverage and content

You can use Global Patent Index (GPI) to carry out detailed searches of the EPO’s worldwide bibliographic and legal event data collections (DOCDB and INPADOC, also used in Espacenet and PATSTAT) and download or visualise the results for statistical analysis

Current content: 123 711 965 patent documents

This week's update (05/06/2020 12:00 CET):

224 639 new documents added

1 141 291 documents amended

GPI key values

Run regular monitoring (e.g. monthly or quarterly) of technical areas or companies

Use built-in charts to visualise technical trends and patenting activity of companies

Choose the data you want to see and download to focus on what you are interested in

Run data quality assessments to measure the risk of incomplete search results

More information

GPI user manual (PDF), free trial and subscription information are available on the EPO website